Refleksi : Alasan yang Paiman Napitulu disampaikan kepada masyarakat yang dibodohkan sangat bagus, seperti penguasa lainnya yang suka menipu rakyat.
Pemadaman kebakaran kapal dilautan bukan dengan truck pemadam kebaran, tetapi dengan kapal pemadam kebakaran, dan agaknya kapal demikian tidak terlihat untuk memadamkan kebakaran tsb. Selain itu bukankah untuk keselematan penumpang, awak kapal dan kapal serta muatannya biasanya sekarang sudah mesti diinstalasikan "fire detector", yang memberi alaram bila ada asap tebal dalam ruangan dan juga dan juga "springer" , yaitu alat pemadam kebakaran yang atomatis menyemprotkan air bila ada kebakaran. Apakah instalasi demikian ada pada kapal-kapal berbendera putih merah? Di setiap pelabuhan seharusnya ada kapal khusus untuk memadam kebakaran di kapal dan juga kapal penyelamat (rescue) untuk menolong bila terjadi kecelakaan di laut. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/01/30/fire-department-understaffed-poorly-equipped.html Fire department understaffed, poorly equipped Andreas D. Arditya, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Sun, 01/30/2011 2:24 PM | Headlines The Jakarta Fire Department operates with less than half the required personnel and only a quarter of the required equipment, an official said. Fire chief Paimin Napitupulu said that the agency was losing firefighters at an alarming rate as more officers retired. He said this put a strain on a department that already had far less equipment than it needed to cope with the frequent blazes in the sprawling metropolis of high-rise buildings and slums. "Our resource shortage has become a very urgent matter," Paimin said recently. The city has only 2,952 firefighters posted in municipalities and district offices, whereas it needed 7,500 to cover the 650 square kilometers of Jakarta, Paimin said. He added that the department only had 137 fire engines (a quarter of what was needed), 11 ladder trucks instead of the required 44, and 11 emergency response vehicles and ambulances instead of the required 92. Paimin said up to 195 firefighters left the job each month. "We recently recruited 450 new people, but it's not enough to make up for the number of those leaving," he said. Paimin said he had made a request to the Jakarta Regional Employment Agency for 1,000 new firefighters, but that only 450 passed the 2010 civil servant entrance exam. Last year, the city allocated Rp 421 billion (US$46.7 million) for the fire department, a decrease from Rp 470 billion in 2009. Pelita Harapan University civil engineering expert Manlian Ronald Simanjuntak told The Jakarta Post on Saturday that the city should immediately address the shortage in personnel and equipment, calling it a "sad fact". He said the understaffed fire department was not the only issue the city administration faced, as it also had to take measures to protect residents and buildings from fires. "These measures include how buildings are managed under comprehensive spatial planning guidelines, attention to building material and, more importantly, how residents respond to fires," Manlian said. Critics said unregulated rapid construction, especially of high-rise buildings in Jakarta in the last few years coupled with the capital's already lax fire safety regulations increased the threat of fire. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Post message: [email protected] Subscribe : [email protected] Unsubscribe : [email protected] List owner : [email protected] Homepage : http://proletar.8m.com/Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/proletar/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
